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2023 Best Value Marine Engineering Schools

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$48,697 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$77,168 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Marine Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 44 people earned a degree or certificate in marine engineering, making the major the #286 most popular in the United States.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Marine Engineering Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value programs for marine engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Marine Engineering Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Marine Engineering Colleges.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality in Marine Engineering

#1

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA
$57,136 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Drexel University the best value school in the United States for marine engineering students. Drexel is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Philadelphia.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Drexel are $57,136 a year.

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#2

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Virginia Tech is a great value for marine engineering students. Virginia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Blacksburg.

Virginia Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $33,857 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Virginia Tech is in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Marine Engineering Schools list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Marine Engineering Schools list. Located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at U-M are $55,097 per year.

U-M also claimed a spot on our Best Marine Engineering Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools in this category.

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Marine Engineering by Region

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New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Marine Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Marine Engineering

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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